MetaFilter posts tagged with underwater

mwoe

Rory Marinich — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:17:55 -0800

Cat meows underwater [SLYT; important]

Mantas Last Dance

quin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:20:52 -0800

In an effort to raise awareness of the hunting of manta-rays to near extinction, Shawn Heinrichs made this beautiful underwater video of a model swimming with the mantas in their natural habitat. [more info at the via]

Dolphin Stampede

quin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:17:19 -0800

Earlier this year, a California whale watching boat was pleasantly surprised to encounter a pod of about a thousand common dolphins who decided to check them out. Some fun footage, including from underwater cameras, was used to create this video of the experience. [slyt] [via]

The Lady of Orda Cave

apricot — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:50:28 -0800

The Lady of Orda Cave Two-time world champion free diver Natalia Avseenko ventures deep into Ordynskaya Cave in Perm, Russia, one of the longest and biggest underwater gypsum caves in the world. She dressed as the mythical Lady of the Cave, a spirit who protects divers inside the “natural cathedral”. Orda Cave previously.

Artistic SeaSnails build other shells into their shells SL

maiamaia — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:52:51 -0800

Artistic SeaSnails build other shells into their shells SL

Googlubglub

twoleftfeet — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:45:02 -0800

Google underwater

Cephalopod vs. Cephalopod

Scientist — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:51:49 -0800

Video (1m4s): Cuttlefish Attacks Octopus A technician servicing an underwater sonar unit has his spanner stolen by a curious octopus. When a large cuttlefish glides onto the scene, things get violent.

Underwater Baroque

xingcat — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:43:48 -0800

Christy Lee Rogers creates Baroque painting-like photographs in camera by shooting brightly clothed people underwater. Hat tip to Kottke.org for this.

Crop circles in the sand

rhapsodie — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:43:18 -0800

The puffer fish mating dance.

Diving in Austria: Grüner See

filthy light thief — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:57:36 -0800

About 800 meters (a half mile) above sea level is Grüner See (Google maps), or Green Lake, fairly centrally located in Austria. Named for the emerald green color of the lake, which is the setting for nice hiking trails, camping and fishing in the fall and early spring when the water is lowest (Google auto-translate, original Austrian site), and a popular cold water diving location in the late spring through summer as snow melts and increases the water depth up to 12 meters (~ 40 ft), submerging trees for a few months, allowing you to swim around park benches, over hiking trails and past fish (Vimeo | more videos).

Dark Water

HuronBob — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:40:30 -0800

Underwater Photography by Elena Kalis. This is just one of her projects, other collections can be found here.

No Mortgage, Underwater Anyway

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:53:15 -0800

Live in America? Find out if your house will be underwater in 2100 and plan your sandbag purchasing well in advance.

Google StreetView For The Ocean

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:36:52 -0800

The Catlin Seaview Survey is using panoramic cameras to take interactive photographic journeys of the world's most spectacular (and endangered) oceanic environments, starting with Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Via. (See if you can find the sunken Australian flat-iron gunboat!)

Just what it says.

thinkpiece — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:01:01 -0800

Dogs under water!

Orda Cave Awareness Project

bwg — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:34:10 -0800

Russian divers working for the Orda Cave Awareness Project have revealed stunning images of the world's longest underwater cave.

U-853

AugieAugustus — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:02:28 -0800

"ALL U-BOATS. ATTENTION ALL U-BOATS. CEASE-FIRE AT ONCE. STOP ALL HOSTILE ACTION AGAINST ALLIED SHIPPING. DÖNITZ." "The order was to become effective at 0800 the following morning. However, of the 49 boats then at sea, several were submerged and would not receive the message. Among them was the U-853." Sixty-six years ago today, off the coast of Rhode Island, the last German U-boat in American waters was sunk at the Battle of Point Judith. "Built in 1943 [...] the U-853 had been a recent addition to the German Navy. [...] She was nicknamed Der Seiltaenzer (Tightrope Walker) by her crew and had reached her operating position off of New England late in the month of April 1945."

The Ballroom Under the Lake

Paragon — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:25:26 -0800

The Ballroom Under the Lake Photo series and explanation Photo series Misc pics: after the flood; wrap-around photo; on Flikr

Putting "black-out" in quotation marks doesn't make drowning sound any better.

Fizz — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:29:38 -0800

Extreme Underwater Ice Hockey. [SLYT]

It's all connected!

bjrn — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:33:39 -0800

You are reading this post thanks to the submarine communications cables that connect the continents together (except Antarctica). It has been 160 years since the first submarine cable across the English Channel was laid. Back then it was just a copper wire coated with a natural rubber, the4se days cables are typically 6.9cm thick, made out of eight layers and weigh 10kg per meter. Currently the longest cable (SeaMeWe-3) spans 39,000km connecting Europe, the Middle East, south-east Asia and Australia. You can feast your eyes on Greg's cable map, showing you where the enormous amount of cables go. Greg's map doesn't show the exact routes across the ocean floor, for that you can check out the Kingfisher Charts (north-east Europe only). And if you love lists, there a comprehensive list of the 983 known landing sites where the cables come ashore, or more info on the US transatlantic cable landings. The history of submarine cables, and the toil and trouble involved are quite interesting, and the Wikipedia article does a pretty good job of summarizing it (in addition to having lots of interesting links).

Ice diving an underwater forest

shiu mai baby — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:12:47 -0800

Lake Kaindy is a lake in Kazakhstan that was created after a huge landslide. A portion of the surrounding forest was submerged, and has since become regionally famous for its underwater trees. The coolest pictures, by far, are from the guys who went ice diving in the middle of winter.

Surreal Grace

bwg — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:39:42 -0800

Behind the Surface: Underwater Ballet Photography by Nadia Moro.

H2omg that's awesome

allkindsoftime — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:22:31 -0800

Underwater Basejumping. That is all.

Walk away

HuronBob — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:48:48 -0800

Forclosure? This evening 60 Minutes did a segment on "walking away" from your underwater home... They featured a web site Youwalkaway.com (previously) which, this evening, is suffering from an overload of hits. Are we going to see an uptick in folks who have said enough...

My dear friend

Smart Dalek — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:24:11 -0800

I Can Hold My Breath Forever. [Flash]

Homeowners! You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Mortgages!

jonp72 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:05:20 -0800

The Moral Dimensions of Ditching a Mortgage: University of Arizona law professor Brent T. White has written a provocative new paper (pdf) that urges homeowners with "underwater" mortgages" to walk away by strategically defaulting on their mortgage debts. White argues that most "underwater" homeowners don't default on their mortgages, because "social control agents," ranging from the housing industry to President Obama, enforce an "asymmetry of norms" that makes it immoral if an individual homeowner walks away from a debt, but allows banks to walk away from debt with impunity. Meanwhile, other economic research appears to confirm White's argument that main barriers to homeowners engaging in "strategic default" are moral and social, not economic and legal.